9-letter words containing f, b
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
- black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
- black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
- bob-fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bombproof — capable of withstanding the impact of bombs
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonne foi — sincerity.
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
- bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bow front — swell front.
- bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.